|   |   | Preface |   |   | 
| Ch. 1 |   | An Essential Introduction |   | 1 | 
| Ch. 2 |   | Review of Variables, Constants, Data Types, and More |   | 20 | 
| Ch. 3 |   | Review of Arrays and Control Statements |   | 75 | 
| Ch. 4 |   | A Detailed Look at Object Orientation |   | 153 | 
| Ch. 5 |   | Directories, Files, Paths, and Sequential File Access |   | 182 | 
| Ch. 6 |   | The Binary Access Method |   | 213 | 
| Ch. 7 |   | Graphics and Animation |   | 247 | 
| Ch. 8 |   | Multithreading |   | 269 | 
| Ch. 9 |   | Overview of Database Programming |   | 293 | 
| Ch. 10 |   | The Connected Layer Command and DataReader Classes |   | 339 | 
| Ch. 11 |   | More on the Connected Layer |   | 390 | 
| Ch. 12 |   | The Disconnected Layer |   | 432 | 
| Ch. 13 |   | Multitable Data Sets |   | 477 | 
| Ch. 14 |   | A Review of Active Server Pages.NET |   | 531 | 
| Ch. 15 |   | Active Server Pages.NET and ActiveX Data Objects.NET |   | 576 | 
| Ch. 16 |   | Web Services |   | 614 | 
| App |   | SQL |   | 642 |